Pork Bellies Futures

By Brian Romanchuk:
Keynes summarised Say's Law as "supply creates its own demand". That is a subject that is somewhat controversial, but I do not want to discuss that here. Rather, I am interested in what might be called the Anti-Say's Law:...

Financial markets in the modern age let you trade just about anything, from pork bellies to Pakistani stock futures, and a whole lot more. On the site, Intrade, markets with varying degrees of activity exist that handicap the occurrence of...

Filed under: FoodLast year, beef and pork prices were up an average of 6%, hitting carnivores' wallets hard every time they were at the grocery store. With wholesale meat prices already up 25% more than last year, the USDA is now warning consumers...

My first familiarity with "pork bellies" was at the ripe old age of 18 when I ended up dating a commodities trader from Montreal who loved his job... a little too much (suffice to say it didn't last long, I just wasn't into futures at that point...

Frozen Pork Bellies futures were traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange until July 2012. They were traded under ticker symbol PB in cents per pound, but for electronic trading sessions, the symbol GBP is used.[1]

Pork Bellies are the underside of a pig (the "belly") from which bacon is made. It is one of the two primary types of pork futures contracts commonly traded, the other being Lean Hogs.